SRM Firmware Howto

Rich Payne, and David Huggins-Daines

1. About this manual

• 1.1 Who should read this manual
• 1.2 Conventions

2. What is SRM?

• 2.1 Getting to SRM
• 2.2 Using the SRM console
• 2.3 How Does SRM Boot an OS?
• 2.4 Loading The Secondary Bootstrap Loader

3. The Raw Loader

4. The aboot Loader

• 4.1 Getting and Building aboot
• 4.2 Floppy Installation
• 4.3 Harddisk Installation
• 4.4 CD-ROM Installation
• 4.5 Building the Linux Kernel
• 4.6 Booting Linux
• 4.7 Booting Over the Network
• 4.8 Partitioning Disks

5. Sharing a Disk With DEC Unix

• 5.1 Partitioning the disk
• 5.2 Installing aboot

6. Installation of Distributions

• 6.1 RedHat 6.0 and 6.1
• 6.2 SuSE 6.1
• 6.3 SuSE 6.3

7. Document History